anti-catholic prejudice is almost a thing of the past, maybe --- witness sotomayer, the sixth catholic on the supreme court --- kennedy's catholicism was a big deal in 1960, but i just discovered that we have had a few catholics on the supreme court almost from the beginning --- the first was chief justice taney (1777-1864), sworn in in 1836 --- no holy rollers yet
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Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
john northbrooke, c. 1570
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